/kəˈbæb/, /kɪˈbæb/, /kɪˈbɑːb/
OriginFrom Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.
- BritishA dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
- AustraliaA hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.
- USA shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
- A restaurant that sells kebabs
“Let's go to the kebab after the club.”
- The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
- A menu icon of three vertical dots.
- transitiveTo roast in the style of a kebab.
- slang, transitiveTo stab or skewer.
“I see myself and Quest falling over backwards and his body rolling off my legs, and that wicked metal pommel winking in the sun, having almost kebabbed me.”
“A bonfire was built in the courtyard of the Church where, 'almost drunk with rage', the mob hacked them into pieces 'so that not even a human shape remained', and then kebabbed them.”
Formskebabs(plural) · kabaab(alternative) · kabob(alternative) · kebap(alternative) · kabab(alternative) · kebob(alternative) · kebabs(present, singular, third-person) · kebabbing(participle, present) · kebabbed(participle, past) · kebabbed(past)